Great Spirits of the Universe -
Each of us and all of us together:
Thank you for the invitation to the Dance,
For the chance to dance
Each side of the steps.
Thank you for the right
To receive and to give,
To be consoled and to console,
To have and to divest.
I celebrate the wonder of it -
That it is not in the one or the other,
Not in receiving or in giving,
Not in being consoled or in consoling,
Not in having or in divesting,
That we do the dance of life;
But in doing both,
doing each,
measure by measure,
both feet.
Invitation to the dance
Does not come deserved
But as a grace,
Unearned, a gift.
I accept it as a gift,
Since it is given.
Unearned,
it is my right.